The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1887-08-09

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which it could be said that it was lit
orally overlooking with plenty, that
country is the state of Missouri to-day.
Our crops were never so abundant as
now, and as corn is king with us as is
cotton at the South, We can truly say
that We have more Of our king than
we know what to co with; but there
Is one consolation, that We have all
realized that plenty of corn means fat
horses, fat cattle, fat hogs and an
abundance of everything. Last year
was an unfortunate one for the farm
ers of Central Missouri. The corn
crop was almost q failure, and all
classes of our people felt the effects of
it; but the abundance of this season
will more than atone for the disaster
of last. Let US then not be discour-
aged, but redouble our energy to i'm
prove and beautify our homes, for
there are but few on the continent who
are blessed with a soil so productive
and land 30 beautiful as ours.
Take Sedalia as a centre, sndfdraw
a circle around twenty miles to the
circumference at every point, and
there are but few spots on earth that
can surpass it in fertility, health and
beauty. Economy and contentment
are wealth all should cultivate these
essentials to happiness. They are the
6nger-boardsJ that point the way to
prosperity and happiness. 1t is the
great fault of the American people
that they are too easily excited-too
easily led astray by every "ignus
fatui" that flashes up before them.
They must learn to know that cit is
nobler and better in the mind to en-
dure the ills they have than to seek
those they know not OF" There is no
country on earth where wealth will
thrust itself upon you; you must work
for it-dig it out right here. Cali
fornia, with all her gold, Nevada
with ell her. silver contain ten
broken, ruined, - helpless, home.
less men, TO where there is one in
Missouri. This is the veritable Col
conds, stick your stakes right here,
and here remain, the time will come
when the great; centre Of wealth and
population of this nation will be in
the valleys of the Mississippi and
Missouri rivers. Natures highway,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is
right through Central Missouri. Sc
dalia is near, if not directly on the
line Of. latitude, we can almost hear
the tramp of millions coming now.
The natural advantages Of .Pettis
county is all that we could desire
we'll directed energy to develop our
resources and establish manufactures
is all that is needed to bring us pop
:ulation,. and with it commerce and
wealth and prosperity, such as has
not been witnessed in this country.
Farmers, merchants and mechanics,
stick to your business and homes, this
is the promised. land. q: AZ -2...g
II is pity, after all, that when
people agree to disagree they cannot
settle their marital differences quietly.
In the Dresden case which has been
msdepabic, the husband and wife
have both shown 8 persistence
in keeping themselves before the pub
lie which must cause their friends
great grief. The. better way would
have been. to settle athc matter as
quietly Dis possible and thus have en-
deavered to undo, 50 far as they
might, that xhich. they we're 80 eager
to consumsseDnly four ..4short years
ago. 1t is quite possible that over
Jealous friends Of both parties have
endeayored to heal the breach which
has xidened between husband and
wife. and that hadshey been permit
ted to 30 their own way;;'a separation
might have been avoided, or at least
a pu bic scandal might have been
avoided and evan ,fhis ais'l something